CD's
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Topic: CD's
Posted By: Abstrakt
Subject: CD's
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:00
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I'm bored, that's why i made this poll. I'm always curious about peoples collections anyway. I just counted mine, and i have exactly 248 at the moment. I voted 250-500, since i have an order of 5CD's that should arrive next week. So... Answer the poll! |
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Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:05
That was a tough one. At first I was going to vote I don't like music. Then I was going to vote 10,000 +. Ultimately, I decided to go with the truth. I have about 1300 CDs. And it is ever-growing. Sadly, I'm going to have to start resorting to downloading music instead in the near future. I'm running out of room to put my CDs. In fact, all I have in my refrigerator at the moment are CDs and beer.  ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:14
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And just because i'm a geek: 46% Prog in most forms (King Crimson, Genesis, Soft machine, Camel...) 23% Metal (Iron Maiden, Opeth, Death, Blind Guardian...) 21% Hard Rock/Heavy Prog/Prog Related (Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Rush, Led Zeppelin...) 8% Jazz & Jazz-rock/Fusion (Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Return to Forever)  |
Posted By: The Doctor
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:26
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I would say that my collection includes about:
55% Prog (not including prog-related and prog metal)
20% Classic rock (including prog-related stuff)
15% Metal (including prog metal)
8% New wave/80's stuff
2% Classical and jazz ------------- I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you? |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:28
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I think I have around 685-690 CD's by now. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:32
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Impressive! But you should build a large CD Shelf like me instead of having them in several diffrent racks! http://img395.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bild124of7.jpg">  Doesn't it look neat? |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:35
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I have between 3000 and 5000 CDs. I have been downloading alot more CDs in recent years, but I still like to burn them to physical CDs. I do seem to have CD and DVD storage units in just about every room of the house. ------------- 
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:39
| If we count only my CDs, it's somewhere between 400 and 450. Now that I'm moving to the US, our joint collection will number close to 1,000, possibly more. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 12:41
| I would have been in the 500's by now but I got rid of a lot of CD's moving to Missouri. In hindsight it was a mistake. |
Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 14:16
It's large? Makes me laugh.  ------------- Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour) |
Abstrakt wrote:Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 14:38
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I'm up to 1140. I have them stored in a couple of storage units that look like a chest of drawers, so they're all in one place and don't take up a whole lot of space.
------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 14:50
| Somewhere a bit below 500, most of them metal, then proggish... |
Posted By: febus
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 15:05
I am impressed!!
 ........3000s...5000s!!!!!! i guess you stopped counting them a long time ago. Thanks god you are living in a mansion to store them all.
  ....and no Soft Machine among them
 ....don't know if your collection classifies as prog now, especially after noticing Megadeth in it!!Anyway should be fun taking a look at your collection!
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Posted By: febus
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 15:09
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I would say around 1500 cds,
600 prog..500 classic rock...200 Classic Jazz...200 world music (including the Bossa Nova of course)
......something like that................and a thousand old vinyls!!! |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 15:31
| I have around 120's CD's, but if I count the ones I often listen from my dad's big collection, then it would be 200:P |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 16:00
| My collection have gone beyond the 250 CD, and I also own a dozen of vinyls and around 70 cassettes. |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 16:45
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1000. At least that's the capacity of the "storage facility" ... soon I'll have to get rid of some of those albums in order to buy new ones.
------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 16:59
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Around 150-200... but I also have a lot of downloaded albums
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 17:53
| probably around 500 something or more. Although I've been trading in a lot of the ones I don't really listen to anymore. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 18:29
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I have exactly 1068 cds... 820 of them are rock music, 180 are classical music and the rest are pop/hip-hop/jazz/electronic-newage....
I'll never fall for the MP3 menace! Never will i betray true hard media! ------------- 
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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 18:39
| About 600-700, I guess. No idea about their genres, except that there's sound on all of them. |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 20:32
| I have no music. |
Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 21:50
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I have 241, nothing compared to some of you guys here. I also download, but only if I can't find it at Best Buy, Borders, or in most retail stores. ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 16 2008 at 22:00
Get rid of your copy of Death Magnetic to make way for something better  ------------- 
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Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 02:27
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793 cd's. 4 in the mail.
------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">  https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: mystic fred
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 02:34
CD's are a bu**er to store - they take up a lot of albums-per-inch space, and if you keep them in a pile after running out of rack space they fall and break into little pieces 
LP's are easier to store, more albums-per-inch and they stay nicely flopped in their racks.
-------------  Prog Archives Tour Van 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 10:46
You can only see about half of it! I think it can hold about 600CD's. That's still quite alot when you think about it! |
Posted By: The Pessimist
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 12:04
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I download most of my music off iTunes, although when it's a particularly obscure band i normally order from specific sites off the internet. 99% of the time however, it's iTunes, although I do love the glossy textures of CDs, with the little booklet of photos and lyrics that you just wanna touch your face with... *cough* Yeah CDs are good, but mostly I'm too lazy or skint to buy an entire album from HMV or something.
------------- "Market value is irrelevant to intrinsic value." Arnold Schoenberg |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 07:17
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1778 today (last addition yesterday was some new stuff from Chick Corea).
Grows on a weekly basis though.
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Posted By: GentleGiant
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 07:27
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a little over 5000
------------- BeGiantForADay "This British band is just the cup of tea for aficionados who demand virtuosity,progress and originality in their mix." http://rateyourmusic.com/~GentleG |
Posted By: spookytooth
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 07:38
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too many (in the thousands, probably)
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Would you like some Bailey's? |
Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 07:52
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Exactly 1365 - 75% prog, rest is hard and heavy, thrash, death, jazz, speed even some pop. Very pround of my collection
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Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 08:45
You can! ------------- I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world of searchers with the help from crimson king |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 10:11
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WOW! It surprises me how big peoples collections are! Downloading sucks! CD's rule! |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 12:14
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^ you can do both, actually ... even legally, for example you can use services like Napster or eMusic in addition to buying CDs and vinyls.
------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 14:06
I utilize both, own almost 500 CDs now I think, 200 LPs, and then maybe have 500+ albums downloaded. ------------- 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 14:14
Somewhere in the area of 500+, but I also have a hundred or so vinyls...which I'm starting to listen to more often 
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Posted By: Sunny In Jeddah
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 14:35
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Probably somewhere around the 250 range. I sold a whole bunch of them a while back. I might as well sell the rest as I only listen to digital now. ------------- 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 16:12
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What are CDs?
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Posted By: splyu
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 16:21
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I couldn't say. I'm not a collector... collecting means collecting dust IMO. I usually get rid of stuff I don't really listen to, so it's ever-changing. I used to have a lot more than I do now, and I have no idea how many I have currently. |
Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 18:34
mmmmmmmm.....seedies! ------------- https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow"> https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 19:27
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5th option
My collection is around 300 cds ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 20:58
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Around 1200.
Bookcases work well for me, storage-wise. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 20 2008 at 12:40
Vinyl  I LOVE IT ------------- |
Posted By: WinterLight
Date Posted: November 20 2008 at 15:33
| 677 total, 221 of which are in the Archives and 32 of which are "classical." |
Posted By: johnobvious
Date Posted: November 25 2008 at 11:15
I got tired of having small CD holders everywhere so I built one that I think can hold about 800, which I have about half full. The problem is if I actually put 800 in it, it might collapse from all the weight!
------------- Biggles was in rehab last Saturday |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: November 25 2008 at 11:30
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More than 7,000 and counting
I will take a photo and put here -------------  |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 10:31
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Over 7000!!!??? Geez! 1000 is ALOT, but 7000!!!??? |
Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: December 07 2008 at 16:04
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I have something like 350. Not bad considering that when I joined PA it was more like 50, oh the dangers to my wallet that this place has caused. ------------- Spending more than I should on Prog since 2005 
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 10:00
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And you're like... 20-something? I'm only 16 and i already have 260!  |
Posted By: Alberto Muñoz
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 11:00
I will put a photo of my room exclusively to CD's ------------- |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 11:42
Please do!  |
Posted By: Mikerinos
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 11:44
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ITS OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 11:52
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I think my classical collection has just about reached the same size as my prog collection... will I get thrown off the site??...  ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 13:59
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Two more and I'll have 600. The bigger the collection the more it sucks when you don't have time to listen to it. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: December 17 2008 at 17:01
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1,672 (with 2 on the way)!!! I never download, and don't plan to.
51% prog and prog metal
20% Heavy metal
18% 60's and 70's rock (proto prog and hard rock)
7% Jazz
4% Other (country, pop, disco, rock'n roll) ------------- 
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Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 16:41
Yeah, indeed.
Which reminds me of our "at least 20 CD's a month" days..
------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 16:50
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I think i've been at about 10-15 CD's a month recently And i have maybe 10 albums that i need to listen to! (Some i've only listened to once, some i've never listened to) |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 19:47
That was fun... I averaged about 18 a month in 07... This year it's 6. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |